I'm having a quick conference with Sal, one of my most charming, if confused, students.

Me: Sal, do you know what text you're going to choose for your fluency assessment? You're going to have to read it out loud.

Sal: Yeah.

Me: What have you chosen?

Sal: Uh... [He smiles and his eyes dart to a bin of magazines for kids.]

Me: It's next week. You have to start practicing. Have you chosen anything?

Sal: Yeah, a poem.

Me: What poem?

Sal: Some poem about birds and bees. From the Internet.

Me: About the birds and the bees?

Sal: Some birds and some bees. And motion.

Me: Motion? Like movement?

Sal: [He looks at me like I'm crazy.] No, like feelings.